<div>I'd be hesitant to use rolling releases in a production environment.<div><br></div><div>I use Ubuntu Server LTS and CentOS for all the servers I need to deploy or develop on. If I need to update to a newer software package, I can (and have) built from source.</div></div>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:</p>
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I'm all for Gentoo - straightforward as can be; excellent package
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On 11/27/11 6:15 PM, Joshua Kite wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi all - it's time I asked for some help. I'm ready
for a new server distro.
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<div>As background, my introduction to Linux was Mandrake. I used
to joke with my friends that we needed to start a usergroup for
those who refused to compile anything, and Mandrake mostly
avoided that. After playing with Knoppix as a desktop for a
while I was introduced to Ubuntu and stuck with it until around
the time Unity was introduced and performance on my particular
configuration became unacceptable. I now use Mint for my
desktop and love it. </div>
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<div>I have continued to use Ubuntu server with good results until
today when I upgraded to 11.10 and had yet another
upgrade-introduced issue.</div>
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<div>My needs are relatively simple. I run the following:</div>
<div>-SAMBA and NFS</div>
<div>-MPD (Music Player Daemon)</div>
<div>-Linux Virtualization (virsh)</div>
<div>-Completely headless - no X installed or required at any
point</div>
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<div>All of my remaining functionality is running on virtual
machines, and I'd like to leave those as-is for now, although I
might move them in the future. These include relatively simple
tools like Apache and Dansguardian.</div>
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<div>One of the things I like about about a distribution like
Ubuntu is that, in theory, I can run apt-get upgrade and update
all of the packages on the system. And, in theory, these have
been tested to work together. I always expect a minor issue
with an upgrade but not something that prevents the system from
successfully booting. What I did not like about Mandrake years
ago was the challenge of dependency hell that seemed to come
with RPM-based systems of the day. However, at this point I'm
open to about anything.</div>
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<div>My knowledge there are probably four basic choices:</div>
<div>-Gentoo (fun, resolves the upgrade issue, but probably
overkill)</div>
<div>-Fedora/Red Hat based </div>
<div>-SuSe based</div>
<div>-Debian based</div>
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<div>I've never worked with any of the "upstream" solutions. Is
it time for this technically middle-of-the-road geek to take one
of them on? If so, what is the overwhelming recommendation?</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Josh Kite</div>
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